by Bob Allen | Jan 30, 2007 | News
Victims’ advocates of clergy sex abuse cut little slack for leaders of Bellevue Baptist Church, who said mistakes were made in failing to disclose a former long-time minister’s admission that he molested his son 17 years ago. “I accept full...
by Bob Allen | Jan 29, 2007 | News
Bellevue Baptist Church was “ill-prepared on several fronts” to handle a long-time staff member’s confession that he sexually abused his son 17 years earlier, according to an investigative team report delivered to the Memphis mega-church Sunday...
by Bob Allen | Jan 29, 2007 | News
In 2005 the Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution urging churches to be on guard against homosexual influences in public schools. But a conservative Web site says the nation’s largest Protestant body might first want to get its own house in order by...
by Bob Allen | Jan 26, 2007 | News
Prominent leaders like Abraham Foxman and Alan Dershowitz don’t speak for the entire U.S. Jewish community in condemning former President Jimmy Carter for comparing Israeli occupation of the West Bank with South Africa’s system of apartheid. A New York...
by Bob Allen | Jan 24, 2007 | News
Former Vice President Al Gore said he is “thrilled” that his documentary film on the perils of global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth,” was honored with two Oscar nominations. The movie received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary...